Jon Stewart on Jon Corzine and MF Global, “The Walking Debt”
(JonStewart) "Politician Jon Corzine saw Lehman Brothers as a cautionary tale; financial firm honcho Jon Corzine saw it as a dare."
I don't always agree with ...
November 9th, 2011 |
Do you know the Counterparty Credit Risk of your ETFs and ETNs?
(GlobeInvestor) "ETNs expose investors to the risk of losing all or most of their principal. That's because ETNs are set up as unsecured, long-term ...
November 4th, 2011 |
Greece – Democracy Dies to Protect European Banks
(Mish) "We will not get to see the precise wording of Prime Minister George Papandreou's referendum because enough cowards in the Greek parliament in conjunction ...
November 3rd, 2011 |
Greece – is it so bad to offer the people a choice, and why are Eurocrats so terrified of Democracy?
(Mish) Great article by Mike Shedlock on the Greek/Euro Dilemma - "Is there any reason Greek voters should not be given a choice? I think ...
November 2nd, 2011 |
MF Global – Trillions in Bailouts, Loads of New Regulations, yet nothing has changed
(TheMarketTicker) ".. there's really nothing more-serious than grabbing client funds internally, and it appears to have happened in the case of MF Global... It's black-letter ...
November 1st, 2011 |
Cyprus Housing Debacle – Lessons Learned as Another Eurozone Country Braces for Collapse
(ZeroHedge) " 'The most common mistake people make when buying property in Cyprus is to use a lawyer who has been introduced or recommended to ...
October 29th, 2011 |
Goldman Advises the Fed to go Nuclear, and set a Target for Nominal GDP
Best summed up by this comment by black swan on the BusinessInsider post:
"@Tom Hunter: 'indicating that they will use additional asset purchases to help bring ...
October 26th, 2011 |
Martin Armstrong on Market Predictions and Objective vs Subjective Analysis
Martin Armstrong is the author of the Economic Confidence Model based on an 8.6 year business cycle theory inspired by the work of ...
November 11th, 2009 |
M3 money supply figures are back, well, unofficially – and the fed credit cycle
Apparently it's possible to extrapolate the current rate of the M3 money supply figures pretty accurately after all, even after the Fed decided to "de-emphasize" ...
December 12th, 2006 |
